Katie Olson

Designer, writer, traveler, knower of things. Watch this space for things I’ll probably regret later. (she/her)

[Katie Olson @improbablekate]

Over-caffeinated and under-prepared, Let's do this.

[Katie Olson @improbablekate]

@mattcantstop We run into a problem where we are thinking of intelligence as “skills and knowledge my circle values” and then fully discount unfamiliar skills and knowledge. You don’t know what you don’t know.

[Christian Becker @TheAmazingBeck]

This is what I imagine every podcast duo looks like

[Katie Olson @improbablekate]

@ninajoss_ So, glad everyone is okay! I used to live in that building next door. (The address is 5654, not 5464 like it says in the article and photo caption, btw.)

[Katie Olson @improbablekate]

@hankgreen Just finished the Gubbins tutorial and it’s clearly a quality game.

[NCAA March Madness @MarchMadnessWBB]

Team of the Week: @CUBuffsWBB

Was this your pick? 🤔

🔗 https://t.co/8jsd5ojjHP

#NCAAWBB

[Katie Olson @improbablekate]

@hankgreen It’s not just the lack of surprise conflict, there’s also a lack of surprise weird which made old Twitter fun. Alternatives feel sanitized, which is sometimes good but also bad.

[Katie Olson @improbablekate]

@ladyofthewastes

[Katie Olson @improbablekate]

@Jaredewy That’s weird, I went as someone setting off fireworks.

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

Has anyone lived in their town long enough that they’re constantly saying sentences like “Yknow the new coffee shop in the place that used to be the dispensary and was the bead shop before that, next door to the place that used to be the bike repair place and became the Asian food market and is now the Jimmy John’s.”

[Katie Olson @improbablekate]

@Jaredewy I know this is about football, but as a CU Denver alumn, it also tracks generally…

[Kingfisher & Wombat @UrsulaV]

A thing that frustrates me when we talk about climate change—and there are so many things, god knows—is how many people seem to think any change in lifestyle = death/doom/total collapse of civilization/Mad Max leather gangs roaming the wastes.

[Katie Olson @improbablekate]

@twinklepriccio Still a better place, but the growing pains are showing.

[Katie Olson @improbablekate]

@twinklepriccio I think it was tending because it’s been hitting the “big enough for trolls, abusers, general assholery to be more visibly an issue” tipping point enough for some bigger names to write about it, unfortunately.

[🐢🐢🐢John Green🐢🐢🐢 @johngreen]

what's even the point of being on this god-forsaken web site if there's no fat bear week?
The right wing of the U.S. Congress wants to restrict our freedom to read AND our access to fat bears? Unacceptable.

[Katie Olson @improbablekate]

@Jaredewy I would take that class.

[GJ @JustGJ_]

I don't know how I feel about this new season of Serial...
#MakeSomeNoise @vicmmic @dropout

[Katie Olson @improbablekate]

@PowellsLeftArm Waiting for “the recent unpleasantness”

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

The last few months of this website has been a little bit like if your drug dealer were to slowly but reliably make the drugs less fun and more tedious.

[Katie Olson @improbablekate]

@hankgreen Denver is very glad to host you any time!

[Silver Spook @SilverSpookGuy]

Many Americans think that Hawai'ians lived in huts prior to colonization. The US actually de-industrialized Hawai'i. Before 1898, Hawai'i already had mass transit, railroads. The city of Honolulu was lit by nationalized, renewable hydropower before the White House had electricity